There was a saying in the past: "If China culture exists, China will prosper; If China culture is absolutely gone, China will die. "
Like a decaying rope riding an angry horse
Buddha said, "Bodhisattva fears cause, but ordinary people fear fruit."
"Madness and sedative Qi Fei, depression and narcotics go hand in hand"
The emergence of militarism in new countries such as Britain, Germany, France and Italy, in which "power is used externally and justice is sung internally". At the same time, it changed the democratic autocracy into dictatorship and called it aggression under the guise of justice. < Poe's Note: It is quite appropriate to explain the social phenomenon brought about by the early development of western industrial civilization, and the law of the jungle means the survival of the fittest. Therefore, the natives of America and Australia, African blacks, Eight-Nation Alliance, China under the imperial army of Great Japan and the Jews under Hitler's "best Germanic" system deserve bad luck. This is a kind of "pure scientific ethics" with no religious background, which is an out-and-out robber logic. There is no "fraternity" advocated by Christ. Patriotism, who can say that Hitler was not a very good and enthusiastic patriot? >
In a word, the teenagers in China from the late 19th century to the early 2th century, that is, the middle-aged and elderly people we hear and see now, are like a group of demolition brigades to demolish old illegal buildings, and like a group of garbage cleaners; When they were young and strong, everyone took hoes and axes and wanted to open up a broad road for future generations and build a new cultural paradise. Who knows that just as the construction started, someone suddenly set off a wildfire, leaving only a desolate place in the end. Later, a group of children followed, and when they saw this picture, they inexplicably cursed the old teenagers of these predecessors as "incompetent" and "irresponsible". The more they watched it, the more angry they became, so they ran around naked and hopping around, cursing and fooling around. Crying, screaming, cursing, nothing. Everyone is tired, at a loss, so we have to lie on the ground and play to depend on, claiming to be happy in know life without worrying! Such a picture is enough to represent the album of the history and culture of the East and China in the 2th century, which is one of the reasons for the ideological and psychological blank of modern teenagers. < Po Note: The Lost Tradition-China's cultural tradition has its roots in modern times, and it can be called Sinology. However, because of the wanton invasion and humiliation of western powers, intellectuals at the beginning of the century came to the direction of "total westernization", dug up the "ancestral grave of Confucius and Mencius" and strongly rejected Chinese studies. This was the beginning of the trauma of Chinese studies. Later, there were even more anti-rightist and Cultural Revolution disasters in the mainland, so the ideal of "total westernization" was almost realized. In fact, "westernization" was not complete, but "middle school" was successfully cut off, and we lost "Chinese studies" and culture. Nowadays, the literati who lead the culture have no knowledge base of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and perhaps some mentally retarded people will get used to calling Confucius "Kong Laoer" naturally. This is an era of rootless "culture", and mainland Chinese people can't even make decent swordsman novels. >
World War II ended a tragedy in the East, but it also judged the fate of western Europe. Italy, Germany, France, and even Britain, which claimed to have no sunset in the 19th century, all declined one after another. The remnants of European culture, apart from some historical traces for people to mourn, in the past, Europe's "vassal" countries, such as Germany and France, were only left with the sight of "poor and restless riverside bones, still living in a dream", which made people feel sad.
"Ten years of wind and water turn". At present, the only western cultures that have shocked the world are the American dollar and science, its young history of nearly 2 years since its founding, and American-style democracy and freedom. Using these capitals, American small pioneers came from behind, and with no experience in leading world history, plus the style of "bad faith, bad morality", they swayed and worked hard. Slope note: beside the hand > It' s awkward. However, no matter how naive and shallow American culture is, it has had enough influence on China and the East, as well as other areas with backward scientific civilization and industry and commerce in the last 3 years of the 2th century. < Note: In contrast, Europeans tend to think that they have more culture than Americans, such as art, etc. In their view, Americans are a group of rude and ignorant upstarts. I heard that people in Paris don't speak English, and they don't speak it. Probably it is beneath their dignity to speak English, especially American English. But who can resist the ubiquitous American army? Now it is the fittest, and aspiring young people in China are busy taking TOEFL or getting visas. The evolution of history is quite in line with Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest". The concept of "gunboat policy" can't be found in China's traditional culture. Chinese people learned the experience of "being beaten behind" at the cost of blood, so the disaster of Chinese studies began and has not ended yet. Today, the United States has even created the robber logic that "human rights are greater than sovereignty", thus forcing the industrial and commercial "culture" to the whole world, which is unstoppable. This is the fate and karma of all mankind? ! >
Four years ago, a sociology professor from an American university visited the East during his summer vacation. . . He asked: "China has gone through several times equal to the era of national subjugation, but this country, nation and culture have not died, and every time they have gone through historical disasters, they have become more brilliant and powerful. This is almost unprecedented in western history. What power is this?" I answered him simply and clearly at that time: "This is the power of cultural unity." He listened, and although he kept taking notes in his hand, his attitude was full of doubt. < Note: All the dynasties in which foreigners ruled the Central Plains failed to stop the long flow of Chinese culture. The great flow of foreign culture injected into Chinese civilization was Buddhism from India, which was transplanted and integrated into the body of China culture. However, the invasion of western industrial culture in Chinese mainland in modern times has almost cut off the three schools of Chinese studies, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, and it remains to be seen how it will end in the future. According to my feeling, China's culture will be extinct, and the era of absolute end law will come, and mankind will rest. If China's culture prospers, the human society will be sunny, but the prediction of the end law era mentioned by Buddha will fail? Difficult, difficult, difficult! ! ! >
America. . . The spirit of "owned by the people, governed by the people and enjoyed by the people". However, freedom and democracy, which are paid attention to anyway, have potential industrial and commercial interests and values in their innate bones. This was the case at the beginning of the founding of the people's Republic of China, and it is still the case today after 2 years. To be honest, your current democratic politics, the mastermind behind the scenes, still cannot leave the background of the power of industrial and commercial capital. True! So far, the United States has no great territorial ambitions for other regions, but it can't be said that it has no market demand! < Poe's Note: As President Reagan said in his autobiography, if there is ambition to occupy other countries' territory, by the end of World War II, the United States has occupied more than half of the earth, and all Americans have withdrawn. Take Japan as an example, in fact, Japan, which is now economically developed, has actually occupied many markets in the United States. Japan's trouble is that it has become a replica of the American social system. Now the whole of Japan is busy as a nest of ants on hot bricks, with developed materials and degraded spirits. The United States seems to be a big guy who grows up by eating instant noodles. The trouble is that it is trying to forcibly take all people's food and make them live a happy life of eating "He Da Zhuang brand instant noodles" every day, and it is willing to use gunboat policy to enforce this happy life as understood by American upstarts, and no one can do anything about it. >
European countries, such as Britain, France, Germany and so on, have always looked down on the United States with traditional self-esteem, but in the historical evolution of the times, they are still unable to escape from the twists and turns of American ethos. < Po Note: In fact, the emergence and proliferation of the American model is the inevitable result of the industrial revolution in Europe and America in the early years. This result is expressed by a scary song title of Liu Yida lamenting the hole in the ozone layer-My God! ! ! >
War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China. Just because of the Japanese thoughtlessness, it ruined China and the whole culture of the East. < Poe's Note: Japan rose rapidly after the Meiji Restoration, and reached an equal position with European and American powers militarily. It can be said that it was very successful in "learning from foreigners". But history has evolved to this day, have the Japanese gained happiness? A friend of mine recently came back from Tokyo and sighed, "At least I don't want to live there. Four subways have been dug underground in Tokyo, and many people are busy running on escalators. The whole city is like a huge and busy mouse nest and ant nest. This nation has gone completely crazy." I'm not sure whether this statement is completely true or not, but I know that many China people are proud of going to Japan to make a living or gild, instead of studying Westernization to revitalize China like some ancestors in the 192s and 193s, and China is moving towards this modernization. It's difficult to block a car with a gladiator's arm. Try to save yourself and save others with your fate. >
Britain, Germany, France and Japan have passed, and now it is America's turn to be the most popular. However, we blindly follow this friend whose history is too young, energetic, motivated and whose culture is too naive, worship its nude beauty, and fall in love with its ecstasy, which is as terrible as playing with the beauty on the volcano. < Note: I didn't copy the last sentence wrong. However, history seems to obey Darwin's law of the jungle, and force is supreme, and people with profound culture are also inevitably slaughtered. For example, the Mongolian barbarians used pure force to rule the four fields and dominate the world. However, looking back at the history, the Mongolian empire finally disappeared without a trace because of its illiteracy, leaving only the word "yellow disaster" in the dictionary enough for Genghis Khan's descendants to be proud of. The "Qing" empire also left only rubbish like "Gege". Will oriental culture really win the victory of saving the world in the future? It's hard to say, but there is no doubt about the superiority of oriental culture in wisdom. For example, the most wonderful operation method of "saving oneself from life and death" is simply vacant in western scientific civilization, so westerners with great wisdom are either suffering abnormally or addicted to oriental studies. Today's Yankees are really a bit like Mongolian warriors in those days. It seems that the suffering of human beings on this earth is still suffering. If the oriental culture is unfortunately extinct in the future, the "absolute last law era" will come, and the world will become a hell, suffering and suffering. >
I often hear our own friends proudly quote the speech of former British Governor of Hong Kong, Ge Lianghong, in the United States. He thinks that "the 19th century is the century of the British; The twentieth century is the century of Americans; The 21st century will be the century of China people. " It's a pity that I didn't hear it myself, and it's difficult to confirm this sentence 1%. < Note: Lao Tzu said, "Far away is the opposite". Perhaps if industrial civilization goes to extremes and human beings are not extinct, it is really possible for human beings to find the way of "returning to simplicity" again. At that time, the ancient culture of the East will be useful. At present, the future is still in the fog, only knowing that there are nuclear bomb targets everywhere, the ozone layer is broken, species are becoming extinct day by day, the temperature is rising gradually, and busy people are constantly running to the mouth of death. Human beings as a whole still lack rational consciousness. >
Internally, under the banner of "American-style" democracy and freedom, the whole country is full of various crises, such as pornography, blue (workers' problems), white (drugs and narcotics) and black (racial problems). < Note: In 1999, there were many cases in which some people were driven into mental disorder by the pressure of survival, so they fired guns at schools, stock markets and even kindergartens. And American life is always inextricably linked to bombs. The affair between the current president and his wife is widely known, which symbolizes the "high civilization" of the American model. America is really a paradise created by industrial civilization. >
The so-called "American-style democracy and freedom" is characterized by the famous saying of one of them who started from industry and commerce: "The greatest learning in the world is how to make others send money in their pockets to me happily." < Note: Balzac will definitely recognize such a wise man as the authentic direct descendant of Old Grandet. Seriously: "The greatest and most important knowledge in the world is to find a way to escape from death, and the Buddha and Lao Tzu are all masters of this teaching to escape from prison." >
"Learning to be excellent means business, and business to be excellent means being an official."
the country, the product of people; Man is the instrument of the heart.
Today's America is just a brilliant star in the western culture. It is an experimental field of scientific civilization, not an indicator of the whole human culture. < Note: According to the wisdom of the celestial comet, it is also appropriate to use it as a metaphor for the Mongolian empire that swept the world that year. I just don't know whether the large group of mice used for this experiment will be completely extinct in the process of this experiment. No matter the nuclear arsenal or the hole in the sky, it is no joke. >
The famous Tang Yao in China's ancient history was a saint, but his son Dan Zhu was a black sheep. Gu Sou is not a good man and his wife is bad, but their son Yu Shun is a saint. < Poe's Note: Indeed, human wisdom, artistic talent and so on are often not passed on to future generations. For example, the children of Einstein, Newton and others are not intelligent people. There are countless examples. This phenomenon can't be explained by modern genetics at all, but can be explained by reincarnation in Buddhism. Some people, such as Prach, an American psychic, even found that some wandering special souls would focus on helping some lucky people to do work such as artistic creation, which explains that a few people who have never experienced art will unconsciously draw paintings in Picasso's style and can sell them at high prices abroad. In other words, some people go to the temple to ask Guanyin Bodhisattva for a son, which is very reasonable. If you don't make some efforts, you will be miserable if you get pregnant with a poor soul or even an evil soul. >
In China culture, the earliest example of family education is the Book of Rites. I always hope that my countrymen and my nation can deeply understand their own culture first. At least, everyone must read the important part of the Book of Rites.
Since Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty and Emperor Jing, the educational spirit of "ruling the world with filial piety" has gradually laid a foundation. . . After arriving in Wei Wendi, he tried his best to advocate filial piety, which made the emperors of past dynasties form the motto and criterion of "ruling the world by filial piety" in political thoughts and measures.
"Seeking a loyal minister must be at the door of a dutiful son"
"Governing the world with filial piety" is absolutely correct, and "filial piety" is the characteristic of China culture. < Po Note: Indeed, "filial piety" is a strong concept unique to China. In western culture, there is only "love", and with the progress of material civilization, the scope of this "love" is shrinking to "sex". Ang Lee's masterpiece Pushing Hands reveals this point profoundly. However, in today's China, with the traditional culture being "knocked down",